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        <footnote id="F1">Shares were transferred to a revocable trust for which the reporting person's wife is the settlor and the trustee.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">The information herein is based on a Retirement Savings Plan Statement dated November 26, 2003.  The Retirement Savings Plan Statement indicated the number of units in the Common Stock Fund of the Retirement Savings Plan credited to the participant's account at November 26, 2003 and includes shares credited during 2003 that were exempt from reporting pursuant to Rule 16A-3(f)(t)(i)(B).  The number of shares of common stock owned at November 26, 2003, was determined by dividing the dollar value of such units by the closing sale price of the common stock on November 25, 2003.</footnote>
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<TYPE>EX-24
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<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY
<TEXT>
                       POWER OF ATTORNEY

     The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of
Carla D. Brockman and James R. Hatfield, signing singly, the
undersigneds true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

  (1)  execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigneds capacity as a director and/or officer of OGE
Energy Corp. (the Company), Forms 3, 4 and 5 in
accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder:

 (11)  do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to
complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely
file such form with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and

(111)  take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection
with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-
in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve
in his or her discretion.

     The undersigned hereby grants to each attorney-in-fact named
above full power and authority to do and perform any and every
act requisite, necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of
any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully as the
undersigned could do it personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all
that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-facts substitute
or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of
the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the company assuming,
any of the undersigneds responsibilities to comply with Section
16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

     This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4
and 5 with respect to the undersigneds holdings of, and
transactions in, securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 6th day of November, 2002.

                        Carla D. Brockman
                        A. M. Strecker, Pursuant to Power of
                        Attorney being filed herewith

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